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From: Pdigmking on 23 Jun 2008 15:02
Hello,

I have a toshiba A105 with an 80gig HD. I have a new Wester Digital HD
that I'm trying to swap in there. I used Acronis Migrate easy to copy the
drive, and I used this USB connection kit. The copy appeared to go well
although it took 11 hours. When I plugged the new drive and fired up the
computer I get: "Unable To Run Operating System" or something like that.
The jumper setting is on default (no jumpers) which is master drive. In
setup the drive is recognized, it just won't boot up. Connections are
good. Any ideas?

TIA

Paul
From: Hula Baloo on 23 Jun 2008 15:29
Pdigmking wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a toshiba A105 with an 80gig HD. I have a new Wester Digital HD
> that I'm trying to swap in there. I used Acronis Migrate easy to copy the
> drive, and I used this USB connection kit. The copy appeared to go well
> although it took 11 hours. When I plugged the new drive and fired up the
> computer I get: "Unable To Run Operating System" or something like that.
> The jumper setting is on default (no jumpers) which is master drive. In
> setup the drive is recognized, it just won't boot up. Connections are
> good. Any ideas?
>
> TIA
>
> Paul
Some manufacturers put special "stuff" in the master boot record
which the BIOS checks for. I don't know if Toshiba does this or not,
but I'd sure check with them to find out. I've used Norton Ghost in
similar situations with pretty good success, but I've never used the
Acronis software (even though I've heard a lot of good things about it).
I assume they have equivalent functions. Good luck!
From: BillW50 on 23 Jun 2008 15:31
In news:Xns9AC68ED28F056paugle(a)127.0.0.1,
Pdigmking typed on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:02:24 GMT:
> Hello,
>
> I have a toshiba A105 with an 80gig HD. I have a new Wester Digital
> HD that I'm trying to swap in there. I used Acronis Migrate easy to
> copy the drive, and I used this USB connection kit. The copy
> appeared to go well although it took 11 hours. When I plugged the
> new drive and fired up the computer I get: "Unable To Run Operating
> System" or something like that. The jumper setting is on default (no
> jumpers) which is master drive. In setup the drive is recognized, it
> just won't boot up. Connections are good. Any ideas?
>
> TIA
>
> Paul

Sounds like Acronis copied the files and the programs, but didn't copy
or create the MBR (main boot record) on the new HD. Without this, you
can't boot off of the HD. There are free utilities out there that will
allow you to create one, if you don't know how.

--
Bill
Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
MX6124 (laptop) w/1GB
Windows XP Home SP2 (60GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)

From: Pdigmking on 23 Jun 2008 15:52
"BillW50" <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote in news:485ffa26$0$1351
$834e42db(a)reader.greatnowhere.com:


>
> Sounds like Acronis copied the files and the programs, but didn't copy
> or create the MBR (main boot record) on the new HD. Without this, you
> can't boot off of the HD. There are free utilities out there that will
> allow you to create one, if you don't know how.
>

Ah, ya know, I think I may have screwed up on this, I recall seeing a
"create bootable drive" option, and I may not have selected the right
thing. Are saying I can make this a bootable drive now? I'll check into
this.

Thanks
From: Pdigmking on 23 Jun 2008 16:22
Ok, I found this program, MBR wizard. I need to make sure I've got this
command right however. Here's what the instructions say:

The Repair option is designed to replace the boot loader with a standard
Windows XP boot loader. The only parameter currently available for /Repair
is 1, which indicates Windows XP, additional options will be available in
future versions to support Vista and others as required. Making sure the
Disk=x option is set correctly (you don't want to repair the wrong disk),
use the following command to perform the repair:

MBRWiz /Repair=1 /Disk=0

I'm not sure of course which disk is which. Is "0" my current "C" drive?
Or is that "1"?

Any thoughts?


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